Second best Egyptian dynasty was XXV, the Nubians. 'Tweren't for them, Sennacherib would have ended Judaism and therefore: aborted Christianity. But all agree upon the first best: XVIII, nasty as it was. XVIII came from Ahmose the brother of Kamose the last XVII, in Thebes. That's some ways up river from the Med. There's been talk maybe they were Nubian too.
The DNA is out for King Tut and (therefore) his parents: R1b and K. That profile is... that of my maternal grandfather.
In the comments people are (very) quick to question if the R1b might be Chadic (V88). But the indications are more to M269, present in the Late Bronze Egyptian-occupied Canaan.
This spins a deep story of XVII perhaps being Hyksos who went native on Egypt's fringe. That wouldn't be the last time Egypt saw that happen, as witness those Nubians and, indeed, the Ptolemies.
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